How to donate funds directly to Folding@home

Some people have asked how they could donate money to help Folding@home. First and foremost, you can help by downloading and running our client software. This software is free, but for each computer participating, we get a commensurate boost in our computational ability. For all those who have run the client, we thank you!

For those of you who would like to donate money, you can make a tax deductible donation to Folding@home (via the research group of Vijay Pande) by donating to Stanford University. Stanford is a 5013c non-profit entity and thus a donation of money is tax deductible. Stanford's Federal Tax ID number is 94-1156365. Many companies help individuals donate to Stanford by providing matching funds. You can check to see if your company matches funds by clicking here.

If you're interested, please go to Stanford's donation page and fill out the web form. Please select the "other" category in the Designation box and write in the "Additional information" please designate Folding@home's fund code GAHIQ or the fund title " Folding@home Computing Project Gift Fund." You will have to make this designation to make sure that your donation goes to FAH, rather than the University at large.

If you would like to directly call Stanford University with your credit card information, you can contact Stanford toll free at: 866-543-0243 (International call +1-650-724-0627). Our customer service representatives are available Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST. The address for mailing gifts is Gift Processing, PO Box 20466, Stanford, CA 94305. Don't forget to note that you would like your donation to go to the Folding@home Computing Project Gift Fund. You can find more information from Stanford's donation site or at Stanford's gift giving FAQ.

What would the donation go to? We do have needs large (e.g. servers, graduate students, etc) and small (memory, hard drives, backup). For example, each year we generate 50,000 gigabytes of data and just backing that up costs $25,000 in LTO-2 tapes. Every little bit helps!

Thank you for your support!

Vijay Pande and the rest of the Folding@home team